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Global fund would provide effective means to fuel REDD+ climate program: experts
Efforts to stop an increase in global temperatures can succeed if policymakers put in place a broad governance structure to oversee REDD+ from which money would trickle down through state-level funding to local projects,...
Q+A: Can the REDD+ climate change program produce measurable results in the next 3 years?
Policymakers must see REDD+ achieving measurable results in the next three years to ensure the U.N.-backed framework for reducing emissions from deforestation and degradation survives, according to a leading forestry scientist.
Bolivia’s Brazil nut gatherers must establish control over logging operations, says study
Brazil nut gatherers in northern Bolivia must play a greater role in overseeing commercial logging being undertaken in their forests, a study warns, or they risk losing control and income as logging operations increase in the...
Harvesting both timber and Brazil nuts in Peru’s Amazon forests: Can they coexist?
In the Brazil nut forests of the Peruvian Amazon, scientists from the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) are trying to resolve a controversial question: can selective timber harvesting coexist with Brazil nut...
Q&A: Who owns the rights to the world’s common resources?
In the lead-up to the 14th Global Conference of the International Association for the Study of the Commons (IASC), CIFOR scientist Andrew Wardell discusses some of the challenges in managing the world’s commons resources.
